Tag: Victor Hugo
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When grace is joined with wrinkles, it is adorable. There is an unspeakable dawn in happy old age.
Victor Hugo
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We say that slavery has vanished from European civilization, but this is not true. Slavery still exists, but now it applies only to women and its name is prostitution.
Victor Hugo
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One sees qualities at a distance and defects at close range.
Victor Hugo
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To love beauty is to see light.
Victor Hugo
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Forty is the old age of youth; fifty the youth of old age.
Victor Hugo
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Architecture has recorded the great ideas of the human race. Not only every religious symbol, but every human thought has its page in that vast book.
Victor Hugo
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I am a soul. I know well that what I shall render up to the grave is not myself. That which is myself will go elsewhere. Earth, thou art not my abyss!
Victor Hugo
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Genius is a promontory jutting out into the infinite.
Victor Hugo
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The animal is ignorant of the fact that he knows. The man is aware of the fact that he is ignorant.
Victor Hugo
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People do not lack strength; they lack will.
Victor Hugo